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Skype Founders Sue eBay

There's no love lost between Skype's founders and eBay, it seems. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who sold their popular VOIP service to the auction giant back in 2005, filed suit against eBay earlier this week.

According to The New York Times, the suit "claims that eBay violated copyright law by altering and sharing the peer-to-peer source code behind the free Internet calling service." Despite selling off Skype to eBay, the service's founders have maintained ownership of its source code.

The suit, filed on behalf of Zennstrom and Friis's current company, Joltid, claims the damages could come out to over $75 million a day.

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